1842: Death of Hobson
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 10 September, 1842: Governor Hobson died in office from a cardiac arrest. You’ll find his remains in a public tomb beside the city-side of Grafton Bridge, Auckland. It reads.. “THE GRAVE OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM HOBSON R.N. NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST GOVERNOR…WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MEETING OF THE MAORI CHIEFS WHICH RESULTED IN […]
Read more..September 10, 2019
When The Last Boomer Dies, God Will Return To Earth
By VJM
The Boomer is an utterly Godless creature. Having completely forsaken divine guidance and surrendered to ego, it lives a life of pure narcissism, driven only by instinct, lurching from one impulse-fuelled drama to the next. However, there is always a resurgent spark of yang everytime yin appears triumphant. When the last Boomer perishes, God will […]
Read more..September 10, 2019
There is no letter ‘s’ in the Maori language
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
There is no letter ‘s’ in the Maori language. When the Maoris took up English words one of the first things they did was to strip out every ‘s’. Thus, ‘soldier’ becomes ‘hoia’, ‘Samson’ is ‘Hamahona’, ‘soup, ‘hupa’. My understanding is that Maoris not born to it as children simply could not produce the required […]
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1937: First State House Built?
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today, 18 September, 1938: Statist history will tell you, the first State House was built In New Zealand. The one they mean is at 12 Fife Lane, Miramar, Wellington. First Labour 1.0 State House, yes. First State House, no. Government has been getting its grubby hands into housing from the about the 1860s or earlier. State History simply […]
Read more..September 9, 2019
1985: GMV Wairua
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
This week in history: 9 September, 1985; Wairua’s last New Zealand Crossing. GMV Wairua was built by The State in 1961 to serve as freight and passenger ferry over the hard core stretch of water between the South Island and Stuart Island; Foveaux Strait. In 1985, as with so many other things, the new Labour […]
Read more..September 8, 2019
A Universal Basic Income Would Pay For Itself In The Bitching It Would Prevent
By VJM
The Internet is full of bitching about who is entitled to what and who is ripping who off. Endless back-and-forths that have been running for decades already, and sometimes for centuries before the Internet was invented. This bickering does a tremendous amount of social damage, fostering distrust, suspicion and cynicism at all levels. As this […]
Read more..September 8, 2019
1989: Jim Anderton Splits
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Jim Anderton (79) died in 2018. Man, did age catch up with him in the end, as if having a hand in the political ring has been the drug that kept him vital. Not winning the 2010 Christchurch Mayoralty, by that view, has been the death of the ageing drummer boy. He really did represent […]
Read more..September 7, 2019
Democracy Has Failed
By VJM
It’s starting to appear that the democratic system now causes more misery and chaos than it solves. The ancient Greeks were well aware of its shortcomings, and now that our cultural decay is starting to become conspicuous, we’re learning about its shortcomings as well. This essay shows how democracy in the West has terminally failed, […]
Read more..September 6, 2019
1868: The Beak of the Bird
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 7 September, 1868: Te Ngutu O Te Manu/’The beak of the bird’: McAttack! Chief Titokowaru picked up the Hauhau mantle after it’s creator, Te Ua, died at the end of 1866. From mid-1868 the cannibalistic cult leader rebelled against New Zealand, murdering and destroying and thieving about South Taranaki. “Te […]
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1821: Musket Wars Auckland
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Musket Wars Auckland: This is where you go to die. The Kill Box. Once a rich urban paradise, the Auckland isthmus Maori settlers prospered. A blend of peoples built fertile gardens and terraced their hilly cultivations. “Tamaki-makau-rau” (as revisionist historians have started calling it) became highly populated then it became a wasteland. “Reverend Samuel Marsden […]
Read more..September 5, 2019
1820s: The Murder Olympics
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Olympics (Winter or otherwise) are a good way to think about the New Zealand Musket Wars. It occurred to me that the incentives are similar and both groups of competitors access performance enhancing drugs (often illegal) so they will not get knocked out of their competition. The pre-Colonial Maori’s substance was iron and muskets, […]
Read more..September 5, 2019
Mummy Politics and Daddy Politics
By VJM
If religion is for those who have outgrown their parents, as Freud had it, then politics could be said to be for those who haven’t outgrown their parents. The only reason why any person would want to vote for a ruler is because of an emotional juvenility that caused them to seek after a surrogate […]
Read more..September 5, 2019
